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Arun Jaitley's outburst is justified: The Supreme Court is playing God
There is no one better than Arun Jaitley to call a spade a spade.
Two days ago, the Finance Minister minced no words in saying that the judiciary was trampling all over the constitution’s basic mosaic of the separation of powers. Angry about the judiciary’s repeated lunges into executive and legislative terrain, Jaitley said it all in one sentence: “Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed”.
It’s a strong statement, and one that the Supreme Court should heed.
The Constitution gave the legislature, the executive and the judiciary primacy in their own domains, but the courts have been stomping all over legislative and executive territory, making laws rather than just interpreting them. And these interventions are not one-offs, occasional transgressions that may be necessitated by circumstances. It seems 'The Brethren' want to see themselves in the headlines almost daily, as if to prove they are the only worthies capable of running the country.
Friday's newspapers tell us that the Supreme Court has ordered a special investigation team to probe charges of wife-swapping among navy officers. Pardon me, but isn’t this the job of the police? So tomorrow if someone is beating his kids, we go straight to the Supreme Court with a public interest litigation (PIL)? If garbage is piling up in front of my house, I go to court again?
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/s...icle-356-bcci-ipl-rbi-dance-bars-2779546.html
There is no one better than Arun Jaitley to call a spade a spade.
Two days ago, the Finance Minister minced no words in saying that the judiciary was trampling all over the constitution’s basic mosaic of the separation of powers. Angry about the judiciary’s repeated lunges into executive and legislative terrain, Jaitley said it all in one sentence: “Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed”.
It’s a strong statement, and one that the Supreme Court should heed.
The Constitution gave the legislature, the executive and the judiciary primacy in their own domains, but the courts have been stomping all over legislative and executive territory, making laws rather than just interpreting them. And these interventions are not one-offs, occasional transgressions that may be necessitated by circumstances. It seems 'The Brethren' want to see themselves in the headlines almost daily, as if to prove they are the only worthies capable of running the country.
Friday's newspapers tell us that the Supreme Court has ordered a special investigation team to probe charges of wife-swapping among navy officers. Pardon me, but isn’t this the job of the police? So tomorrow if someone is beating his kids, we go straight to the Supreme Court with a public interest litigation (PIL)? If garbage is piling up in front of my house, I go to court again?
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/s...icle-356-bcci-ipl-rbi-dance-bars-2779546.html
